Increases With Audio Books

Reading Comprehension Increases With Audio Books



Love of reading and reading comprehension go hand in hand, and audio books have proven to promote increased reading activity – and advance reading comprehension, something many people struggle with on a day to day basis.

For students, audio books stimulate the imagination, help build vocabulary skills and enhance pronunciation. Also, whereas a thick-paged book might be intimidating to a student, most are familiar with computers, iPods and stereo systems - and are adept at using them. So why not give them an option that merges traditional reading enjoyment and comprehension with the high-tech universe they’re immersed in?

Audio books can quickly become a source of pleasure for the student and can mean the difference in viewing learning as a fun activity or as a necessary annoyance to be avoided at all cost. That isn’t to say audio books should replace traditional reading activities altogether, but they can contribute to the student’s education and advancement.

Students who find themselves failing in the classroom can use audio books as a source of valuable information to help them catch up and forge ahead on almost any subject by increasing their comprehension. Audio books also offer the individualized attention that will ultimately increase a student’s understanding of a subject.

Gifted students can also avail themselves of audio books to increase their knowledge of a subject or expand the volume of books they can read during a certain amount of time. With a teenager’s schedule, there’s often limited time to pursue academic activities, and audio books can be devoured on the go.

A rapid increase in language comprehension can also be obtained by the use of audio books. The connection between text and speech becomes clear with the use of audio books, helping the student to improve his reading and vocabulary skills.

Audio books are increasingly being used to help special needs students grasp the key between speech patterns and reading. Once this connection is understood by the student, he experiences a new level of self-esteem. The audio book serves as a supplement to the educational tools the student already uses to gain clarity for a topic.

The activity of reading becomes a much more joyful and useful experience when enhanced by audio books. Students can visualize more readily the actions of the words in the book and it becomes much more stimulating to the mind of the reader.

Once a student perceives audio books as an enjoyable hobby, he or she can make the transition to consuming print books on subjects they feel will entertain or educate them.